A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c23.9

v1.c23.9

In this science, the puruṣa is the living body, composed of the five mahābhūtas. The world is divisible into beings that cannot move (sthāvara) and those that move about (jaṅgama), into fiery (āgneya) and cool (saumya) substances, into substances with a preponderance of one of the mahābhūtas, and into four classes of beings: saṃsvedaja, jarāyuja, aṇḍaja, and udbhijja¹¹ (1.22).